Senior Consulting Strategist (External Partnerships & Delivery Capacity Expansion)

GiveDirectly has delivered over $1B in cash to 2+ million people in poverty across 15 countries since 2011. Their mission is rooted in scalable, cost-effective, and dignified aid through cash transfers, backed by rigorous research.

By 2027, GiveDirectly aims to triple its current delivery to $750M+ while pursuing a 10x step-change via a new technology stack and operating model. This role focuses on expanding delivery capacity through external partnerships, including institutional data sources, subgrants, or remittance providers.

The ideal candidate will work autonomously to evaluate, prioritize, and implement strategies to increase delivery capacity. You’ll report to the Chief of Staff and collaborate with the Executive team, Country Directors, and external partners. This is an early-stage role with high-impact recommendations potentially influencing hundreds of millions of dollars in aid.

What You’ll Do

• Build and prioritize a portfolio of options to increase delivery capacity, assessing scale, speed, feasibility, and cost for pathways like institutional partnerships, outsourced delivery, or telco/payment provider arrangements.
• Pressure-test opportunities through direct engagement with potential partners, regulators, and counsel, delivering defensible recommendations to advance or halt projects.
• Advance one or two priorities from evaluation to live pilot, managing counterparty relationships and cross-functional coordination.
• Define and run competitive solicitations, including drafting RFPs, setting selection criteria, and evaluating responses.
• Negotiate with institutional counterparts, such as UN agencies, INGOs, mobile network operators, and government bodies, from initial contact to signed agreements.
• Equip Executive decision-making with analysis and written recommendations to guide resource allocation.

What We’re Looking For

• Driven, disciplined explorer with Director/Team Lead-level experience in consulting, strategy, or operations, particularly in social impact or business contexts. You’ve taken a broad mandate (e.g., “find us more ways to deliver”) and distilled it into a shortlist of rigorously tested options.
• Strong analytical instincts to generate insights from data, compare structurally different options, and assess feasibility metrics.
• Intelligent negotiator who understands institutional incentives, compliance requirements, and when to persist, adapt, or walk away.
• Clear, direct communicator who simplifies complexity for senior stakeholders, presents actionable recommendations, and outlines assumptions and next steps.
• Alignment with GiveDirectly values, embodying integrity, transparency, and a commitment to dignity and impact.

Additional (non-required) areas of interest:

• Experience with humanitarian donors (e.g., UN agencies, INGOs), mobile money/telco partnerships, grantmaking, competitive solicitations, or data-sharing agreements.